Spam Filter

[Paul Howarth]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 10:29 +0100, Samatason Ltd wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> What's the best approach to filtering out spam at server mailbox level? I am
>> running FC5 and SendMail...
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> Chris
>>
> There seems to be a sisagreement on this but I would try spamasasassin.
> The program is isntalled but you can find installation configuration
> instructions on the web.
> 
> Since sendmail runs procmail on each messgae it receives you can use
> a .procmailrc script to run spamassassin and distribute your mail
> (including the spam found) in to appropriate mail boxes.

Running spamassassin using a milter has the advantage that you can 
reject the spam during the SMTP transaction. So in the rare case where a 
legitimate message is mis-identified as spam, the sender gets to know 
that it wasn't delivered. You can't safely do that using procmail.

Paul.